After Tuesday's elections, a record number of women will serve in Congress come January 2019. With the win, Rojas said, the progressive movement challenging the establishment of the Democratic Party has shown it "can unseat Democrats who are ideologically and demographically out-of-touch with their voters and forced Democratic elected across the country to stiffen their spines".

Several women Democrats captured governorships now held by Republicans, including Laura Kelly in Kansas and Gretchen Whitmer in MI. U.S. Representative Marsha Blackburn defeated the state's former Governor, Democrat Phil Bredesen.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - the 29-year-old socialist who became a media darling over the summer after beating a 10-term NY incumbent in the Democratic primary - is headed to the U.S. House of Representatives with a resounding victory in Tuesday's general election, Yahoo News reported.

Also Massachusetts, Democrat Ayanna Pressley will be the first woman of colour in her state's congressional delegation.

Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of MI became the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Sharice Davids defeated a Republican incumbent in Kansas to become the first openly LGBTQ woman to represent Kansas.

With results still coming in, 94 women have won or are projected to win their House races as of early Wednesday morning, up from the current 84.

The Democrats may not have gotten quite the blue wave they were hoping for ー but for women in politics, Election Day was an indisputable success. Several were first-time candidates.

Democrat Ilhan Omar will serve as the nation's first Somali-American Congresswoman.

Ocasio-Cortez, a community organizer and former bartender, will represent New York's 14th Congressional District, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens. "The first role of women as military flyers was during World War II as Women Airforce Service Pilots, an organization disbanded after the war", Colonel McSally said. About 6 in 10 voted for the Democrat in the race, compared with 4 in 10 for the Republican candidate.

Many first-time candidates this year were inspired to run for office, at least in part, by the 2016 presidential election - both the fact that the first female major-party nominee ever lost, and that Donald Trump, who is very unpopular among women (particularly Democratic women), won. The share of women identifying as Democrats or leaning Democratic is up 4 percentage points since 2015 and is at one of its highest points since 1992.

Chitwood said the teen left school early on Friday to stage a burglary at the home where he killed his mother, police said. Prosecutors charged him with premeditated murder and a judge decided on Monday that he will be held in jail without bond.

The kingdom's public prosecutor has since called the killing premeditated , but has not said who planned or approved it. The crown prince has been accused of either masterminding or knowingly permitting Khashoggi's killing in Turkey.

At one stage during the conference, relatives urged Lion Air founder Rusdi Kirana, who was in the audience, to stand up. Once that happens, it may try to right itself by pushing the nose down, reports the Straight Times .

Mr Acosta is seen trying to keep hold of the microphone while Trump's aide makes three unsuccessful attempts to take it from him. Acosta was banned from the White House until further notice on Wednesday, much to the dismay of many celebrities.

In a report on CNBC by Jon Fortt, the new iPad Pro 2018 is described as nearly looking like a laptop . Though the device is yet to reach all around the world, we got our hands on its stock wallpaper set.

Before this ballot initiative passed, felons in Florida could only have their rights restored by appealing to the governor. Amendment 4 will not apply to people who were convicted of murder or felony sex crimes, according to the Tampa Bay Times .

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The Portuguese superstar immediately ran to the corner flag, lifted up his shirt and pointed at his impressive stomach muscles. A ball into the box was headed on by Marouane Fellaini and Sandro got the final touch as the ball was bundled over the line.

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On the heels of this, CNN is reporting Thursday that the special counsel has begun writing the final Russian Federation report. Mr Trump also spoke on the House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi , who is favoured to be the next Speaker from January 2019.

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In total, Amazon received proposals from 238 cities previous year and reduced the list down to 20 finalists in January. What are cities offering Amazon? By the time the deadline hit five weeks later, 238 proposals were submitted.

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If your voter registration is missing this information, or you are unsure, you can bring those forms of identification to be safe. But you will need to provide ID later for your vote to be counted. "7 p.m., get in and vote", Johnson said.